Al, to be honest I don't think the Windows native would save hassle, rather it'd probably cause more! No disrespect to those doing the version, read on for reasoning...
Yes, you get a beta of a Windows native version just now, yes it probably will not be that long till the source is a available... But how long till it's part of a cosha PostgreSQL release? Version 7.4... Could be up to six months... Do you want to run pre-release versions in the meantime? Don't think so, not in a production environment! So, the real way to save hassle is probably a cheap commodity PC with Linux installed... Or settle for the existing, non-native, Windows version. By the way, just to open Office documents? Have you tried OpenOffice? Regards, Lee Kindness. Al Sutton writes: > Is there a rough date for when they'll be available? > > I have a development team at work who currently have an M$-Windows box and a > Linux box each in order to allow them to read M$-Office documents sent to us > and develop against PostgreSQL (which we use in production). > > I know I could have a shared Linux box with multiple databases and have them > bind to that, but one of the important aspects of our application is > response time, and you can't accurately measure response times for code > changes on a shared system. > > Having a Win32 native version would save a lot of hassles for me. > > Al. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Ulrich Neumann wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > i've read that there are 2 different native ports for Windows > > > somewhere. > > > > > > I've searched for them but didn't found them. Is there anyone who can > > > point me to a link or send me a copy of the sources? > > > > Oh, you are probably asking about the sources. They are not publically > > available yet. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
